Battlfield 3

Gullanian · 23 Sep 2011 at 00:53

I just pre-ordered BF3, and my pc is (from OC of course!):

AMD Phenom II X6 Six Core 1090T
Corsair Vengeance 8GB
XFX ATI Radeon HD 5770 1024MB GDDR5
Crucial RealSSD C300 64GB

Is this good enough to run BF3 in a good resolution? I feel my graphics card might be lacking and im willing to buy a new one if it means the game is going to run better

gwobbles · 23 Sep 2011 at 00:57

wait till the beta is available at the end of this month then decide

Buchanan0204 · 23 Sep 2011 at 01:01

Should get around 30-40FPS at 1680x1050. Perhaps less.

shadow_boxer · 23 Sep 2011 at 01:03

gwobbles said:
wait till the beta is available at the end of this month then decide

This.

Gullanian · 14 Oct 2011 at 15:21

Played the beta it's amazing

It runs OK on my PC, but not great. Is there any bottleneck that stands out to anyone? Would a better gfx card help in anyway? I got a pretty cheap mobo:

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=FS-268-OK&groupid=43&catid=1817&subcat=

Speed · 14 Oct 2011 at 15:24

GPU looks like the main issue frankly, so if you were going to upgrade something that would be my suggestion.

Also clocking the 1090T would help, if you haven't already.

SeeKified · 14 Oct 2011 at 15:35

Yeah, a slight overclock of the CPU and perhaps another 5770 if you can find one would do you good. If you can't fit another 5770 you'd need a beefier card (like a 6970) to run it well.

Speed · 14 Oct 2011 at 15:37

No second PCI-E slot on that board so it would have to be a better single card, 6950/6970, 560Ti/570. Depends on your budget really.

Random Guy · 14 Oct 2011 at 15:38

Agreed - you need to move to the 6950/570 range at least in order to get decent FPS (and even higher to get great FPS). Yep, the days of the Uber PC are upon us again!

Me, I am going to wait for the next GPU updates as it is (relatively) not too long and my current GPU has more than enough grunt to get me there.

Gullanian · 14 Oct 2011 at 17:19

Budget I can do ~£250, I'm a bit worried with these cards they wont actually fit in the computer though.

I'm looking at this one:
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=GX-254-AS&groupid=701&catid=56&subcat=1752

I'm just worried because when I was even more of a noob 5 years ago I bought a new gfx card for a game and was thoroughly dissapointed with the upgrade, didn't do much. Am I going to see significant performance improvement with this one?